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Music is emotional connection:

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Music is emotional connection: Been working on a little something... 🃏🪓🖤 Not sure whether this is becoming a horrorcore track, spoken-word poetry or just another beautifully chaotic K•Doll brain dump. 🤣 Written Sunday 25 October 2026 at 23:25. It's raw, unfinished and completely personal. I've been DWTC since 1998, and this piece explores what the Joker's Cards and the Dark Carnival have meant to me emotionally throughout my life. It's about individuality, accountability, compassion, survival, community and remembering why we connected with the Carnival in the first place. There's anger in it, absolutely. But there's also love, reflection and a reminder that we can always choose to do better. I've woven in references to the decks, little Easter eggs and experiences that have shaped me. It's not written in chronological order because my connection to the Carnival isn't a memory test. It's personal. And perhaps my favourite question from the wh...

What I’m Learning About Boundaries (And The Times I Still Slip):

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What I’m Learning About Boundaries (And The Times I Still Slip) Boundaries are one of those things that sound simple when you say them out loud, but living them is something else entirely. I’m learning that maintaining boundaries isn’t about getting it right every time, it’s about catching yourself when you don’t. Because I do slip. I still get roped into replies, I still find myself trying to explain, trying to get people to understand, trying to bring facts into conversations that were never about facts in the first place. And that’s where I have to pause and check myself, because the reality is you can’t reason with the unreasonable. Some people are committed to misunderstanding you, committed to twisting things, committed to getting a reaction, and no amount of calm explanation is going to change that. That’s been one of the hardest lessons for me, because I care. I care about truth, I care about fairness, I care about people seeing what actually happened, and that part of me will ...